FYI: HEAD: small fixes

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:06:02PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> 
> >        * bootstrap: Do not use nonportable -path.
> >        Reported by Ralf Menzel <address@hidden>.
> 
> Yep.  Please commit!
> 
> >        * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_PROG_CXX, _LT_PROG_F77)
> >        (_LT_PROG_FC): aclocal-1.4 compatibility workaround.
> 
> Also good.  Please commit too.

Done.

> I think it would be good to add a test that checks all m4_defun and
> m4_define declared macros, and complains if they don't also have an
> aclocal-1.4 compatibility comment...

OK.  I'll look into it.  By the way, _LT_PROG_CXX is m4_defun()ed but
AC_REQUIRE()d.  Is this a problem or is this ok?  I guess that it is
necessary for compatibility, but am, again, lost.

> I've been meaning to set up a backwards compatibility environment
> with progressively older autotools each installed to their own
> prefix, and a driver script that tries to bootstrap and distcheck
> libtool in each... I might work on it after the next alpha if the
> bug reports don't overwhelm us (yeah right!!).

Have fun with it  :)

Cheers,
Ralf